Daniel Clowes

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.